at Teatro San Carlo in Naples in the same role. Sierra is featured in the book Driven: Six Incredible Musical Journeys in which author Nick Romeo devoted one of the chapters ("Journeys") to her. In January 2016, she performed at Venice New Year's Concert with Stefano Secco and at Milan's fabled La Scala as Gilda in Rigoletto with Leo Nucci. In January 2017 she sang in the New Year's Concert at Palermo's Teatro Massimo, followed in March by six performances as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In January 2019 she sang in the New Year's Concert at Venice's Teatro La Fenice. In 2017, she was named the year's Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award Winner, and performed to great critical acclaim at the December 10th Gala. Sierra performed in the Concert de Paris under the Eiffel Tower in July 2017. Her 2017/2018 highlights include: Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at The Metropolitan Opera, solo recitals in Dallas and New York City, a tour with Andrea Bocelli, Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff at the Staatsoper Berlin, and Norina in Don Pasquale at the Opéra National de Paris. In 2018, she was named the Beverly Sills Artist Award Winner in a ceremony held at the Metropolitan Opera. She is a Universal Music Group artist with a solo album, There's a Place for Us, which was released August 24, 2018 on Deutsche Grammophon. In 2022, her Violetta in the Metropolitan Opera production of La Traviata was hailed as showing Sierra's "innate sense of style and line that recalls Italian sopranos of the past, with decadent rubatos that fall on just the right side of indulgence." Awards Sierra has been awarded the following awards and scholarships: National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Miami, Florida – Vocal Silver Award 2006 Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, West Palm Beach, Florida – First Place Junior Division 2007 The Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition, Santa Barbara, California – First Place Award 2007 National Society for Arts and Letters Vocal Competition, Bloomington, Indiana – Second Place Award 2008 The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, New York City – Grand Finalist Winner 2009 Florida Grand Opera Competition, Miami, Florida – Junior Division First Place Award 2009 Licia Albanese–Puccini International Competition, New York, NY – Third Place Award 2009 Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, New York City – First Place 2010 Richard Tucker Foundation, New